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Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria

Global banking and financial services

Money Laundering Investigations Analyst

Financial Crime & AMLPosted on Nov 11
Full-timeMexico City, CDMX, MexicoNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor's degree in Criminology, Forensic Accounting, Industrial Engineering, or a related area.
  • One to three years of verifiable experience in financial investigation, forensic analysis, and deconstruction of complex transactional networks to confirm, dismiss, or assess AML risk hypotheses.
  • Experience preparing case files and technical reports for adjudication teams, integrating sources, evidence, analytical reasoning, and link visualizations in AML, fraud, forensic audit, compliance, or OSINT investigations.
  • Demonstrated ability to construct and analyze relationship maps involving resource flows, family relationships, and corporate relationships using specialized tools.
  • Ability to review corporate structures and identify ultimate beneficial owners.
  • Ability to conduct advanced OSINT searches for wealth, assets, and public records.
  • Knowledge of anti-money laundering and fraud prevention, including risk assessment, customer profiling, and interpreting unusual transactions against expected economic activity.
  • Ability to support institutional exposure assessments with technically sound, methodologically defensible evidence and forensic documentation.
  • English at B2 (intermediate-advanced) level, including reading and understanding technical texts related to the role and writing routine material for basic argumentation.
  • AI-900 Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals, Google AI Essentials, or equivalent certification in generative AI applied to analysis is indispensable.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct specialized investigations to confirm, dismiss, or assess the realization of AML risk hypotheses across BBVA, analyzing customers, networks, products, channels, geographies, and transaction patterns holistically.
  • Contribute to determining BBVA Impact by analyzing financial, regulatory, reputational, operational, and business exposure; assess transaction consistency with the customer's declared profile, identify involved products and relevant links, and evaluate potential implications of maintaining, mitigating, or ending the commercial relationship.
  • Develop link analyses, graphs, and network maps to identify ultimate beneficiaries, corporate structures, family and commercial relationships, and resource flows, including relevant nodes, intermediaries, concentrators, and dispersers.
  • Prepare forensic case files with clear technical narratives, traceable evidence, source documentation, link visualizations, analytical reasoning, and actionable conclusions for FCP, RIC, control areas, or management decision-makers.
  • Conduct OSINT and multi-source profiling of socioeconomic status, economic activity, assets, public records, and corporate relationships to justify or dismiss unusual transactions based on a holistic view of the subject or network investigated.
  • Identify vulnerabilities in monitoring rules, products, channels, or service models during investigations and document lessons to continually strengthen the bank's preventive control environment.

Desired Qualifications

  • Diplomas or specialization studies in Corporate Criminology, Forensic Accounting, or Financial Crime Prevention.
  • Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certification from ACFE.
  • Specialized training, technical certification, or verifiable practical experience in link analysis and graphing, using intelligence visualization software such as IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook or Maltego, graph databases such as Neo4j, or network-theory libraries such as Python to identify hidden corporate structures, fragmented financial flows, and ultimate beneficial owners.
  • Deductive thinking, investigative rigor, and attention to detail.
  • Ability to interpret complex contexts and translate investigative findings into actionable business conclusions.
  • Strong written communication for preparing clear and objective case files.
  • Autonomy in handling highly confidential and comprehensive cases.
  • Ability to collaborate across data analytics, risk prevention, and legal frameworks.

About the Company

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria

Global banking and financial services

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, commonly known as BBVA, is a multinational financial services group offering retail, commercial and corporate banking. It provides accounts, payments, lending, mortgages, investment products and financial guidance for individuals and businesses, alongside services for institutional clients. BBVA combines physical banking networks with digital channels and operates across multiple international markets. Its business spans everyday financial needs, business financing, wealth management and transaction services within the regulated banking industry. Its workforce combines specialist delivery, customer support and business operations.

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